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Saint Titus

Paul’s Greek companion, to whom one of his New Testament letters is written

Honoured as
Apostle of the Seventy, Bishop of Crete
Western calendar
26 January, with Saint Timothy
Orthodox calendar
25 August (7 September on the old calendar)

Titus was a Greek and a pagan until Paul won him for Christ, and he became the apostle's companion, the man Paul calls "my companion and collaborator". Paul took him to Jerusalem at the time of the council and would not have him circumcised, and later sent him to make peace between the troubled church of Corinth and the apostle. One of Paul's letters in the New Testament is written to him as bishop of Crete, and an early tradition says that he died there when he was over ninety.

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